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Ah, good old-fashioned gangland thuggery.

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I've already disposed of the course reader for that class, so I can't point you to the texts that I actually read. However, I grabbed this link http://carbon.cudenver.edu/~mryder/itc_data/semiotics.html, which seems to have a lot of basic definitions and information on, what I learned as semiology b...

Have you considered reading up on the field of semiology? I was briefly familiarized with this discipline, the study of signs and their meanings, during a film criticism course last term. The basic summary of what I learned is that there are supposedly three basic classes of signs. To use semiologic...

Does comics have to tell a story? That depends on your definition of "story". If you mean fiction, I would say no. If you're talking about a progression of ideas--for example, documentary films that call themselves, "the story of whatever"--then, yes, I think that's <i>probably</i> a valid limitatio...

I think that a comic has to narrate something, whether it be a story, an idea, an emotional state, whatever. And the images (whether they include text or not) are the primary narrative devices. Does it have to be planned by the artist? My gut says yes. Even in the extreme of found art, the artist ha...

Glych: I think composition is probably a good idea. Now, a series of paintings in a gallery wouldn't automatically be comics. They'd have to have been planned to be viewed in that way and composed to that end by the artist.

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Why should a definition even be made? I don't think that comics artists should be thinking about it as they create, as that could obviously stymie invention and innovation in the artform. However, I think that a definition that can, at least, tacitly be agreed upon by a majority of people is an impo...

Thanks for the operational definitions. Good to know what we mean when we say "objective," for example, since some would argue that no image can be TRULY objective because it was created by someone who chose what to put in, what not to put in, etc. A thesis-like transition connects ideas, such as an...

Could we perhaps get a specific definition for each of the terms as they are being used in this context? Words like "subjective" and "objective" can be coloured in many different ways, after all. I was wondering if there are other things you could put on the triangle to organize transitions. Perhaps...

I was just reading a little bit about semiology for a film criticism class I'm in, and it made me wonder if anyone had ever tried to apply these ideas to comics. Sound familiar to anyone? It's too bad there isn't some sort of academic publication on comics, in which one could look up things like thi...

I don't want to retread a lot of what's been said here, but imagine removing all the rests from a piece of music because they're just dead time. Or imagine how the character of a scene from a Beckett or a Stoppard play would be changed if the pauses in the dialogue were removed. Anything can be over...

I just picked up <u>Jar of Fools</u> by Jason Lutes after having read the exerpt from it in Reinventing Comics. I thought it was quite brilliant.

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David: You mean like a flow chart?

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The reference to PBS begs the question of whether there's a Corporation for Public Broadcasting in this analogy.

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Got me there, Greg. M: You're right; I can't see why a sculpted work like you describe wouldn't be comics. But you're also right that it would be very different from anything, as far as I know, that's being done currently. I suppose, though, that mass producing and distributing it would be a little ...

I suppose I could get her input. Though, she doesn't really read comics because no comics are really able to be read right now. I understand what has been said about comics being an inherently visual medium and, of course, it will lose something. But just because it'll be different for someone who's...